16 Dr. Kennepy Batin’s Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 
and the field of Lycian research in my rear, one in which I should gladly have 
borne a part had my modicum of time permitted me; but the churches of Asia 
were my first object. My course then lay along the left bank of the Meandrus 
to the site of Karowra, and after that, of Laodiceia, from which I crossed the 
Lycus on my way to that of Hierapolis. 
My course now lay north-west, through the extensive district of the Kata- 
kekaumene, and the point of junction of the Messogis and Tmolus ranges, to 
Philadelphia,* which is situated on the northern slope of the latter. The site 
of Sardes (ble or >.) terminated, for the present, my advance in this direction, 
as Thyatira, by the way of the Gyg@an lake and Marmora, was my next resting 
place. I then resumed my former direction, and crossing the Hyl/us entered 
Mysia by the way of the site of Nakrasa,t which brought me on to Pergamos. 
This terminated, for the present, my course northwards, as I returned from 
thence by the coast road to Smyrna, having thus completed my survey of the 
Asiatic churches. 
Teos, the central city of the Ionian confederacy, and the seat where the Pani- 
onian Council assembled, might naturally be supposed to possess attractions for 
the antiquarian traveller. Nor will he be disappointed. Its remains commence 
at the distance of a mile or two to the south-east of the modern village of Sig- 
hadjek ( s>\e.s), and extend over an area of three or four miles in circumference. 
Vestiges also of the old harbour are yet plainly discernible, which is quite dis- 
tinct from that by which Sighadjek is approached, this lying considerably to the 
north. 
As the traveller emerges from the ruins, and pursues his course towards the 
north-east, he comes, at the distance of three or four miles, upon the modern 
village of Sivry-hissar, (_e>-Lsy,), close by which, and surmounting walls 
7 gor, (perhaps YI, but) not |, as generally supposed. See note in first Memoir on 
this, p. 128, 
+ See Arundell’s Visit to the Seven Churches of Asia, p. 276. The Turkish representative of 
this is >) or : It is distant from Thyatira, to the N. W., about three hours and a half or 
four hours. 
Coins of this ancient site are still extant, and an inscription published by Chishull, in his Andz- 
quitates Asiatice, p. 146, proves it to have been a colony of the Macedonians. Vid. Eckhel. u. s. 
vol. iii. p. 109, 
